Photos: Portraits of Super-Fandom, by Lena Herzog

Earlier this month, Russian-born photographer Lena Herzog traveled to San Diego to chronicle Comic-Con, the annual comic-and-fantasy convention known for attracting meticulously costumed fans, in fine-art format. After capturing dozens of attendees in quiet moments, Herzog—whose work has been published in *The New Yorker, The New York Times, *and The Paris Review—passed along a selection of her portraits to Vanity Fair. Below, a close-up look at some of the convention’s most fanciful costumes, and the people behind them.

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A pair of body-painted convention-goers in elaborate, if skimpy, costumes.